Orchestre Metropolitain

Orchestre Metropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius 2 & 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:22 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.

ATMA Classique proudly presents Jean Sibelius’ Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal. Recorded at Maison symphonique de Montréal, this new release is part of our complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies launched in 2019 with Symphony No. 1.

The two symphonies on this recording are among the best-loved works of Jean Sibelius. Symphony No. 2 marks the conclusion of his first stylistic phase. Like many other Finnish patriotic artists around the turn of the century, Sibelius identified as a national Romantic. Symphony No. 5, on the other hand, established the foundations of what would become Sibelius’ mature style, in which he pushed concentration and austerity to extreme limits. The popularity of these two works has never faltered since they were premiered in Helsinki more than a century ago.

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Orchestre Metropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius 3 & 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:44 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.

ATMA Classique proudly presents Jean Sibelius’ Symphonies No. 3 & 4 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal. Recorded at Maison symphonique de Montréal, this new release is part of our complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies, launched in 2019 with Symphony No. 1.

Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000, Yannick Nézet-Séguin signed a “lifelong” commitment with the Orchestre in September 2019. In September 2018, he became the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera (MET) in New York in addition to his ongoing duties as Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he has served since 2012.

The Orchestre Métropolitain (OM) is one of Quebec’s key cultural ambassadors. Since its inception in 1981, the OM has set the bar high, building a unique relationship with the community through high-impact initiatives. Over the past 20 years, the Orchestre has grown alongside its artistic director and principal conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, whose career continues to reach new heights.
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Orchestre Métropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:08 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATMA Classique

ATMA Classique is proud to announce the digital release of the first in a new series of recordings devoted to the symphonies of Jean Sibelius, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the helm of the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.

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Orchestre Metropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:33 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.

This is the third album in a new series of recordings dedicated to the symphonies of Jean Sibelius on the ATMA label. Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin leads the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3. The Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52, by Jean Sibelius is a symphony in three movements composed in 1907. Coming between the romantic intensity of Sibelius’s first two symphonies and the more austere complexity of his later symphonies, it is a good-natured, triumphal, and deceptively simple-sounding piece.

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